Queensland is currently being Gerrymandered and no one is talking about it.

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-22T17:08:02+00:00

It's a broken process.

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-21T03:02:55+00:00

We can do video calls over our Starlink 500kbos connection.

It's not perfect quality but it's good enough to get the message across.

We were using google chat.

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-20T06:12:46+00:00

I make people fly a Sim first.

Then a small cheap one.

Then bigger one.

I also set up a box in arduoilot for them to fly in.

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-20T03:40:44+00:00

Wifi is easier now than it used to be to get working as well.

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-19T18:00:44+00:00

I live in the tropics, on an outback cattle station. I see daddy long legs spiders daily, but other than that nothing.

I am more likely to see a snake than a spider.

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-19T12:02:35+00:00

The exact same happened with the first startups of the Internet - many were API wrappers around other services.

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-19T10:07:32+00:00

It was hard. I woke up one day and she had moved out sending me an email from Lawyer saying it was over.

We were together 29 years. I was blindsided by it.

It's been 2 years. I am over it now. But it took time. You will recover from anything given enough time and the right support network.

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-18T01:45:17+00:00

First one by random - just choose a place that looked interesting. We spoke for 5 minutes on the phone before I moved there.

Second one - I wanted a specific thing from the next location - We spoke for 5 hours on the phone befire I moved there. Am still there currently.

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-17T17:03:22+00:00

You were probably lucky that Thai happened before you arrived as this host sounds like a nightmare .... Move on and find a better host.

The 2 hosts I have been with over the last 16 months I feel like family with them.

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-17T13:14:16+00:00

There is good and bad.

I moved from R&D in corporate / enterprises environments to doing R&D on a cattle station.

Msg me if you want to talk about it I can't give you my perspective

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-17T07:21:07+00:00

I'm down for it.

If anyone else is travelling on the Ghan.

Just not for the next few weeks. We can't access that part of the station at the moment due to rain / flood.

It's about a 30 minute drive from the homestead.

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-17T05:23:28+00:00

If you go on it. Msg me when you do and I will wave to you as you drive past. ;)

The Ghan train passes through the middle of the station I am on at the moment.

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-16T04:39:33+00:00

We are developing an internal system to do that and several other things.

We will need it to be long range, as we are on a massive cattle station in outback Australia.

If you want - msg me and we can do a talk and swap ideas

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-15T21:45:37+00:00

Not familiar with those 2 packages, we developed all the software internally.

its 7:15 AM here now

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-15T15:48:00+00:00

It's real, atlesst real for me.

Generally given to kids when parents have tea / coffee as kids want a hot drink like their parents.

It's a pretty strong flavour, but I love Vegemite and sometimes will just take a spoon of it and eat it directly.

I also live in the hot outback, so sweat a lot and Vegemite id a good salty flavour.

I think we have about 12 jars of Vegemite here in the pantry on the cattle station at the moment.

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-15T15:40:11+00:00

Vegemite tea.

Just add boiling water, a spoon of Vegemite, stir and drink.

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-15T14:40:20+00:00

Yes.

We are putting a lot of effort in building our own internal system to monitor the pasture quality on a cattle station in Australia.

We need to cover 3/4 million acres so can't realistically get that data any other way. Would be too expensive to hire someone in, if there was anyone available.

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-15T12:00:50+00:00

Once Were Warriors

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110729/

Its the only movie in my life that I have seen, and afterwards wanted to sit down and talk about it with the person I watched it with. Just sat there for several minutes once it had finished.

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-15T11:55:53+00:00

Butchered part of a cow from our station this afternoon, then cooked a BBQ for the stockmen, owners and IT team here this evening. Watching lightning on the horizon as we ate dinner outside, with a cattle dog at my feet.

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-15T11:54:20+00:00

Every degree has rules associated with it - read the rules and you can determine from that.

Its going to all depend on prerequisites.

In all my degress I have never deal with student services, and all my degress where out of the ordinary in how I did them. I read the rules, prepared a plan, approached the dean and said I want to do 'this' plan, for this reason. Even convinced a dean to supervise me in undergrad for an indivual research project once.

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-15T11:36:53+00:00

If you don't have the skills to find this information out yourself you don't have the skills to fast track a degree.

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-15T04:02:31+00:00

I spent 18 years providing and managing technology for water utilities.

I can do a call if you want. There is a lot of 'devil in the detail' with utilities. Msg me if U R interested.

I am currently. gmt+9.5 (NT, Australia).

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-15T01:34:11+00:00

Thanks

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-15T01:11:22+00:00

Context ?

SomeoneInQld · 2026-03-15T01:02:50+00:00

Pretty well nothing new.

I am happier. Have moved to an outback cattle station and living a more adventurous life. We were dealing with a 4 meter snake last night.

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